The Journal of Caribbean Literatures (JCLs) is the peer reviewed journal ofliterature and culture of the entire Caribbean. Subscriptions and sampleissues are available at www.jcls.net.

Aware of the growing importance of the newly expanding field of CaribbeanStudies, JCLs seeks quality submissions for its forthcoming specialpioneering double issue on Caribbean literatures in Dutch and Papiamentufrom the Leeward Islands:

We seek critical arguments from a variety of perspectives, interviews withauthors of the Islands, and fresh translations into English of significantworks of literature originally written in Dutch or Papiamentu from Aruba,Bonaire and Cura=E7ao. Topics of interest, as connected with the threeislands, include: * Tensions in the Cultural Mosaic * Race and Deracination * Leeward Legacies * Colonial vs. Post-Colonial * Spiritual Alienation and the Vexed Drama of Polyglot Religion * The Resorts of Language * Techniques and Themes of Voice * Expatriation and Exilic Phenomena * Papiamentu and the Popular * Comparative Caribbeanism * Relations and Relationships in Dutch Worldwide * Governing Language: Papiamentu vs. Dutch * Conjurations in Literature, Language and CultureAll critical essays must be wholly in English, in MLA style. (Passagesoriginally in Dutch and Papiamentu must be accompanied by translation.)

For critical essays, send abstracts ONLY, and ASAP, 1000 words maximum, induplicate, by electronic mail, IN THE BODY OF THE MESSAGE. No attachmentswill be opened. Tentative Deadline: July 1, 2003. Papers requested on thebasis of abstracts will be needed by January 2004.